Missouri State

Hannah Keeling was announced as Missouri State's new women's tennis coach on Jan. 5, 2021.

In her inaugural season with the Bears, Keeling led MSU to a 12-10 record which culminated in a runner-up finish at the Missouri Valley Conference Championships. MSU went 4-1 in conference play during the regular season which was its best mark in over a decade. Senior Ellie Burger and freshman Tiffani Nash garnered All-MVC honors while graduate student Hana Sisirak was named to the All-Select team.
 
Keeling is a former NCAA Division II top-20 singles tennis player at Clayton State University who came to Springfield after three seasons as an assistant coach for the men’s and women’s tennis programs at Georgia Gwinnett College.
 
In her three seasons with the Grizzlies (2018-20), she has help mentor both team and individual national championships at Georgia Gwinnett. The 2018 and 2019 spring seasons culminated with GGC sweeping the NAIA national team titles in Mobile, Ala. She also helped coach Madeline Bosnjak to the 2018 NAIA women’s singles national championship and most recently helped Maria Genovese win the 2020 women’s singles title during the ITA Cup in Rome, Ga.
 
Keeling earned the 2019 ITA Southeast Women's Assistant Coach of the Year award after helping lead the Grizzlies to a national championship and a 20-1 record. During her time in Lawrenceville, Georgia Gwinnett accumulated a record of 117-3 in men’s and women’s dual meets with 15 All-Americans.
 
As a player, Keeling earned four first-team all-conference honors in singles and doubles at Clayton State in Morrow, Ga., from 2012-15. She helped the team reach a No. 4 Division II national ranking during the 2012-13 season. Keeling also was the top-ranked national junior tennis player in the United Kingdom while playing for Hampshire, England. She supplemented her American collegiate career by spending several years playing in the women’s French national circuit.
 
Keeling earned a bachelor’s degree in health and fitness management from Clayton State in 2015.
 
She has also served as the director of the Stars of the Future program at Ginepri Performance Tennis located at Olde Towne Athletic Club in Marietta, Ga., where she helped develop junior players for the collegiate and professional levels. In this role, Keeling worked alongside Robbie Ginepri, a former No. 15 ranked ATP player, and Jason Parker, a Women’s Tennis Association/ATP coach.
 
Keeling is still active in the International Tennis Federation’s professional circuit and several pro-am charity events throughout the United States.